Pairwise comparisons across species are problematic when analyzing functional genomic data

Casey W. Dunn, Felipe Zapata, Catriona Munro, Stefan Siebert, and Andreas Hejnol
PNAS January 16, 2018 115 (3) E409-E417; published ahead of print January 4, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1707515115

  1. Edited by David M. Hillis, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, and approved December 1, 2017 (received for review May 8, 2017)

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vol. 115 no. 3 E409-E417
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1707515115
PubMed: 
29301966
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National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue January 16, 2018.
  • Published first January 4, 2018.

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Copyright © 2018 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND).

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  1. Casey W. Dunna,1,2,
  2. Felipe Zapatab,
  3. Catriona Munroa,
  4. Stefan Siebertc, and
  5. Andreas Hejnold
  1. aDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912;
  2. bDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095;
  3. cDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616;
  4. dSars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen 5006, Norway

  1. Edited by David M. Hillis, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, and approved December 1, 2017 (received for review May 8, 2017)

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  • ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: casey.dunn{at}yale.edu.

  • ↵2Present address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.

  • Author contributions: C.W.D., F.Z., C.M., S.S., and A.H. designed research; C.W.D. and F.Z. performed research; C.W.D. and F.Z. analyzed data; and C.W.D., F.Z., C.M., S.S., and A.H. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1707515115/-/DCSupplemental.

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Casey W. Dunn, Felipe Zapata, Catriona Munro, Stefan Siebert, Andreas Hejnol
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jan 2018, 115 (3) E409-E417; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1707515115
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